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The quantity of milk sold should certainly not be a factor in determining the
necessity for supervision, but such principle appears to be established by the above
decision, and many persons at present registered will doubtless avail themselves of the
opportunity offered and withdraw their names from the Register. As a matter of fact, I
have already experienced this effect of the above-mentioned ruling.
The small class of milk sellers mainly affected are the very class who from the
Public Health point of view require the closest supervision, and upon my recommendation
the Corporation of London made a representation to the Local Government Board
asking them to amend the Order in question in such a way as to make it applicable to
all persons selling milk within the City, or if it be considered necessary to except any
class, such exception should be clearly defined.
The representation has not yet had the desired effect.
SALE OF MILK IN CHANDLERS' SHOPS.
Some prominence was given during the year to the question of the sale of milk in
chandlers' shops. Tt was suggested at a meeting of the London Retail Dairymen's
Association, that there was considerable variation in the Metropolitan Boroughs as to
the interpretation of the law with regard to the sale of milk on premises which are,
perhaps, unsuitable.
A letter was accordingly addressed to all Local Authorities throughout the
Metropolis, with a view to obtaining greater uniformity of action in regard to this
matter.
In the City every purveyor of milk is required to be so registered in accordance
with the regulations made under the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order, and such
registration may be refused or delayed, and the name of any person duly registered
removed from the Register, by order of Section 5 (Sub-Section 1) of the London
County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908, which reads as follows :—
"Notwithstanding anything contained in the Dairies, Cowsheds and
"Milkshops Order, 1885, or in any subsequent Order, any sanitary authority
"may remove from the Register kept by them of persons from time to time
"carrying on in their district the trade of cow-keepers, dairymen or purveyors
"of milk, or may refuse to enter upon such Register the name of any person
"carrying on or proposing to carry on the trade of a dairyman or purveyor of
"milk upon premises which are in the opinion of such sanitary authority
"for any reason unsuitable for the sale of milk therein.
"Provided that for the purposes of this Section, premises shall not be
"deemed to be unsuitable for the sale of milk therein on any ground inconsistent
"with the provisions or requirements of any Order or Regulation made under
"any Enactment for the time being in force and applicable to such premises."
So far as the requirements relate to chandlers' shops, the City has little concern
therewith, as none of these shops within its limits sells or stocks milk in any degree.
Other small general shops there are in plenty, and these are always required to be
registered.